Human ankle joint stiffness over the full range of muscle activation levels

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1988, Pages 539-544

  Weiss, P L ^b   Hunter, I W ^a   Kearney, R E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Faculty of Medicine   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND CYBERNETICS - IDENTIFICATION;

HUMAN ANKLE JOINT; JOINT STIFFNESS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION;

BIOMECHANICS;

ANKLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT STIFFNESS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION;

ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; COMPLIANCE; ELASTICITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SUPINATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0023907729     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0021-9290(88)90217-5     Document Type: Article

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